19-01-2008, 11:58 AM
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The Smaller Bang
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How good is this system?
Dear all, my system is undergoing serious repairs, due to which I am stuck with using the internet cafe for these small handful of posts per week. In the meanwhile, I decided to get myself a new system for lasting till may 31st(my birthday) by when I will get a better system.
Company: BigApple
Config:
Intel Celeron 300 MHz 
64 mb RAM
4.2 GB HDD
Intel 810 mobo
14" colour monitor 
free telephone 
comes with keyboard, mouse. 
cost: Rs. 3500/-  , 4% vat(thats Rs. 140/-) and if ordered to home, Rs. 500/- delivary charge.(thats why I turned my head towards this piece of crap. Small price to pay for this one.)
I want to do basic tasks like playing music, surfing the net and playing small flash/arcade games.
After may 31st, I intend to make this a download box and a home server.
Please tell me some OSes that can run on this piece of plastic. I am looking at windows 98, Damn Small Linux, Xubuntu, Vector Linux, etc.
Please give me some advice here, I really need it.
http://www.bigapple.in/ids.htm
it gives the offitial specs, incase mine are wrong. I saw an ad in a paper that it comes at 50% off till feb 21st.
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19-01-2008, 12:37 PM
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Beware of the innocent
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Re: How good is this system?
hmmm... no cd drive? doest it have atleast usb ports?
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19-01-2008, 12:40 PM
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Wise Old Owl
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Re: How good is this system?
i would recommend windows 98 
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19-01-2008, 12:47 PM
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Wise Old Owl
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Re: How good is this system?
Go for Win 98 SE
That system I used before. Only difference was the Celeron was 333 MHz which I OCed to 366 
It is good enough for running win 98. Just dont try to install current gen Media players. Do with VLC and Winamp Old versions and you are good to go.
Also In place of IE use Browsers which are less taxing.
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19-01-2008, 09:08 PM
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Right Off the Assembly Line
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Re: How good is this system?
Go get it bro. BTW this time don't fry your celeron 
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22-01-2008, 07:00 PM
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The Smaller Bang
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Re: How good is this system?
Quote:
Originally Posted by °K£l†huzaD°
Go get it bro. BTW this time don't fry your celeron |
actually, it was the PSU that got fried. I only lost Rs. 700/-
Updates:
It has no CD drive, but I have a spare with me
I am getting another 64 mb stick from my friend(why SD when you got DDR2 he asks)
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22-01-2008, 07:10 PM
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Rubik's Uncle!!
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Re: How good is this system?
Gautham have a look at this thread
And one more thing which you can do is run it as a thinclient. As it has 10/100 port , you can install windows terminal server or linux server in a virtual machine on your PC and then connect to that virtual machine from the bigapple PC. a C2D or X2 which supports Virtualization will give bestperformance in this case.
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22-01-2008, 07:15 PM
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The Smaller Bang
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Re: How good is this system?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Charan
Gautham have a look at this thread
And one more thing which you can do is run it as a thinclient. As it has 10/100 port , you can install windows terminal server or linux server in a virtual machine on your PC and then connect to that virtual machine from the bigapple PC. a C2D or X2 which supports Virtualization will give bestperformance in this case. |
my other PC is also a no good rascal with a P4@2.66, GMA 900, no pci-e/agp slot, 256 mb ddr400 ram.
so I can forget thin clienting and virtual machines. I intend to use this baby as a home-server/low power download rig.
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22-01-2008, 09:18 PM
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Elevating Humanity
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Re: How good is this system?
this rig will be Good enough for downloading.
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22-01-2008, 09:39 PM
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Re: How good is this system?
Antique...
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23-01-2008, 01:16 AM
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The Smaller Bang
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Re: How good is this system?
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Originally Posted by nvidia8800
Antique...
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need it to be that way. It would consume very less power and still be able to download lots of files for me overnight. Compare this with your system if you want to see power economics.
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23-01-2008, 12:47 PM
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Re: How good is this system?
^If you use your computer only for browsing and downloading then that system is good enough
Just get a new HDD. 4.6GB will be tooo less....
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23-01-2008, 12:53 PM
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Rubik's Uncle!!
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Re: How good is this system?
^^ he can use a USB harddrive
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23-01-2008, 01:07 PM
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Re: How good is this system?
Gautham rather wait till feb start and get a eeepc .
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23-01-2008, 01:21 PM
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Re: How good is this system?
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Originally Posted by Pathik
Gautham rather wait till feb start and get a eeepc .
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Too much price difference, pathik.
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23-01-2008, 04:40 PM
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The Smaller Bang
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Re: How good is this system?
can someone tell me what I can do with this box other than downloading/browsing?
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23-01-2008, 05:07 PM
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Re: How good is this system?
ill rather tell u to go for second hand rig u cud better one in that price 
just suggetion
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23-01-2008, 05:16 PM
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The Smaller Bang
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Re: How good is this system?
Quote:
Originally Posted by azzu
ill rather tell u to go for second hand rig u cud better one in that price
just suggetion |
what can I get in this Rs. 3640/- budget from a second hand rig ?
Anyway, if the monitor is good enough, I may concider going for a Sempron+Mobo+7200GS combo @ 5K(But I won't buy it immidiately...)
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23-01-2008, 05:20 PM
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Re: How good is this system?
This is the crappest system i have ever heard i think it can fulfill all your needs till may
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23-01-2008, 06:38 PM
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The Smaller Bang
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Re: How good is this system?
Quote:
Originally Posted by krates
This is the crappest system i have ever heard i think it can fulfill all your needs till may
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actually, I managed to patch up my old system too. Its the slug mentioned before by me in this thread.
But I need this system to use as a home server too, and also as a low power download rig. It also needs to be able to run emulators of consoles like GBA, NES, etc at full speed. Asking for PS1 Emulation is too much I guess...
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28-01-2008, 01:48 PM
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The Smaller Bang
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Re: How good is this system?
Update : There is a 40% chance of me buying this in the next 20 days.
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